Unusually typical murder of 7 year old girl by a 16 year old girl…..
A teenager who killed a seven-year-old girl in a park gets life sentence.The judge ordered the 16-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to be detained for a minimum of five years in what he described as a “truly exceptional case”.
The judge was told the girl began suffering from mental health problems more than a year before the killing and that due to her “irrational beliefs” she may have been trying to prove that Katie was not a robot.
Katie died after she was smothered by the teen and then slashed with a Stanley knife in a park in York on 9 January.
The defendant, who denied murder but admitted manslaughter due to diminished responsibility at a previous hearing, appeared by video-link at Leeds crown court. Katie’s family watched from the jury box as the girl sat clutching a soft toy, silent and with her head down throughout the hearing.
Katie was found with deep cuts to her neck and chest on 9 January, after she and the teenager had gone to play together.
Katie’s family said in a statement: “Today is the end of a process and that is a relief, but it’s not the end of our story.
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